It's been so many years since I last played Cluedo that I'm not even sure I've played it in my adult life. Santa kindly dropped off a copy for us to play this week.

My first surprise was that the board has changed, not just in style but also in layout.

The board I remember looked like this:

The new board looks like this:

I'm sure there are plenty of sites around discussing the differences and bemoaning the changes. I didn't find them that bad and the pace of the game seemed a lot better with each player getting to make a guess almost every turn.

Inspired by my recent acceleration into the world of Android, and a recent similar post by Jason, I thought I'd take some time to promote some of the apps I've found interesting or useful on my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 devices.

Google Play Applications

All of these are available from the Google Play App Store. Unless otherwise stated, they are free apps; any stated prices are accurate at the time of writing this entry.

This week I've done something that isn't that common for an iPhone owner - I've switched to using an Android phone.

I've been pretty happy with my iPhone since my purchase of the 3G a couple or three years ago. Deep down I always wanted to be a 'Google phone' user; the mindset is closer to my techie, open-source mind. Sadly when I was making my first steps into the smartphone market, Android based phones were leagues behind the offering from Apple.